The prosecutor's office in Lorient opened on Wednesday a criminal investigation under the title of murder of a minor under the age of 15 against the mother of the newborn who died last Saturday in Surzur. The latter was indicted and placed in custody.
As part of the judicial investigation opened today by the prosecutor's office of Lorient under the title of murder of a minor under 15 years, the mother of the newborn, in her forties, has just been put in consideration of this count of offense and placed in pre-trial detention in accordance with the requisitions.
The child, living at birth
Following the discovery, in Surzur on October 27, of the lifeless body of a newborn, an investigation was entrusted to the research brigade of the Vannes gendarmerie company of the head of voluntary homicide on a minor of under 15 years old. The autopsy, carried out on October 28, established that the child was alive at birth, without it being possible to specify with certainty the exact circumstances of his death at this stage of the investigations.
Denial of pregnancy
The mother of the child was taken into custody on 29 October after being hospitalized. During her auditions, she stated that she had made a denial of pregnancy, was unconscious at the time of delivery due to discomfort, and subsequently decided, in panic, to conceal childbirth. by concealing the body of his child. The investigation also revealed that her husband was unaware of her pregnancy and that no medical follow-up of pregnancy was in progress.
The prosecutor's office Vannes was divested Tuesday night of the procedure for the benefit of the prosecutor's office of Lorient for the opening of a criminal investigation to the criminal branch of the tribunal de grande instance of Lorient.